I am contemplating the purchase of a new 2007 "City Golf" this summer. This car is equipped with the been-around-for-ages 2.0L 8V engine. In and around the year 2000, these engines had a reputation for being oil users - 1/2 to 1 litre of oil every 1000 miles was considered "normal". Is this still the case, or did VW make changes to rings or valve seals to reduce oil usage to levels that are "normal" for other makes of car?
My 2003 Golf with 2.0 uses no oil at all between 5,000 mile oil changes. I think they have fixed this problem. TL
That's the first I've heard of an oil comsumption problem with that engine.
And, by the way, that is a HUGE amount of oil. No car that doesn't have a serious problem would comsume that much.
Mike
no need to worry because VW in the USA only has the new 2.5L & 2L-SFI in that car. The old 2l is gone.
The 2.0s are well-known to have an oil-consumption problem. Mine, an '01, will use about a quart in the span of an oil-change interval, more when I do a lot of high-speed freeway driving in warm weather. The story is that VW spec'ed a low-tension oil ring to decrease friction and increase fuel economy, but it leads to high oil consumption. You hear about it from owners all the time, but dealers refuse to acknowledge it. My local VW guy says he's re-ringed quite a few, and putting new oil rings in does the trick. I don't like it, but all it requires is that you watch the oil level a little more closely than you might be used to. Scared hell out of me when the car was new, but I've gotten used to it, now.
No, not true -- it's just a car with too-low-tension oil rings, that's all. Huge oil consumption is a couple, three, four quarts in 5000 miles.
I have a friend with a '03 Golf 2.0 5 spd. It's engine will use 4 or more quarts in less than 3K miles. She is having the dealer check on it although they seem slow about doing it.
Also the thin oil does not help.
I work with a guy who claims that he'll go through 6-8 quarts in an oil-change interval. '01 Beetle with a 2.0. If true, THAT's huge oil consumption.
I do switch over to 15W50 or 20W50 in the summer before long trips, and it does help.
Good you switch to the thicker stuff, so do I. ;-)
Oil usage like what has been reported here just isn't right. VW has had some issues with valve guide seals at least since the 80s maybe but I thought it was solved with new style guide seals. Maybe it is how the engines are broken in initially or ?????
I have an '83 GTi engine (in my '83 Audi 4000s) with 240K miles and it does not use much if any oil.
No, really, it's the rings. Honest!
None of my other Vee-Dubs used oil. Had the bad valve guide seals in my '85, but other than that, no oil issues.
My daughter has just taken delivery of a 2007 city golf with 2.0 litre engine and it has not burnt a drop in the first 1000kms. However my 2003 with low tension rings burns 1 litre every 1500 kms. Has done since day one and is now at 50,000kms.
My only frustration is the VW will not admit their error and probably won't help when my Cat fails early due to excessive oil burning.
Yeah I have heard that after replacing the rings on some engines the oil consumption basically disappeared! :-) I'll keep watching this oil burning '03 Golf 2.0 engine to see what VW does.
thanks, dave (One out of many daves)
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